noun
- (italics) Also called Tersanctus. the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
- a musical setting for this hymn.
noun
- liturgy the hymn that occurs immediately after the preface in the celebration of the Eucharist
- a musical setting of this, usually incorporated into the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass
n.late 14c., Latin, initial word of the “angelic hymn” (Isa. vi:3), concluding the preface of the Eucharist, literally “holy” (see saint (n.)). It renders Hebrew qadhosh in the hymn.